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Numismatists have their own definitions of the value of certain coins. It is often not clear to an ordinary person why the price does not correspond to the one he independently calculated. In fact, the weight of gold in a coin is divided into the total and the pure precious metal contained in it, and the difference between them is called a coin foot.
The mass of gold in a coin is called a corn (translated from German as grain). Moreover, this definition is used not only in relation to gold, but also to any other precious metal, for example, silver. Korn is used to calculate the price of coins in cases of containing impurities of other metals.
In other cases, the value of a coin is calculated by its total weight. But most often it turns out that there is a significant difference between the net and total weight.
The mass of pure precious metal (gold, silver) contained in a coin
Answer to the question “Mass of pure noble metal (gold, silver) contained in a coin,” 4 (four) letters: corn
Alternative crossword questions for the word corn
Definition of the word korn in dictionaries
Wikipedia Meaning of the word in the Wikipedia dictionary Korn is a polysemantic term. Korn is an annual plant with a rosette of 5-6 leaves. Used in salads and other dishes.
Examples of the use of the word korn in literature.
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Simply enter the date symbols into the converter as you see them on the coin. Cases when you need to enter any additional characters are specifically discussed in the descriptive part.
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Modern unit of measurement of mass and weight of coins made of precious metals
From 1977 to the present day, various commemorative and commemorative coins have been issued from different types of precious metals. They are minted weighing one troy ounce or 31.1034768 grams. this name comes from the name of the French city of Troyes.
This value is now used in the banking and jewelry industries when measuring precious metals, as well as in other areas, such as cosmetology, where the troy ounce denotes the weight of some very valuable components. Around the world, the troy ounce, gold, silver, platinum and palladium are denoted by the following abbreviations: XAU, XAG, XPT, XPD. The mass of larger coins (more than 1 kg) is measured in grams.
How was weight measured before?
In tsarist times, completely different units of measurement were adopted than now. Then the weight was indicated by “spools” and “shares”. For example, the weight of a coin could correspond to “one spool and 56 shares.” More familiar grams came into use only in the 20s of the 20th century.
In Russia, starting from 1747, everything was calculated in Russian pounds, which, when converted to modern weight measures, amounted to 0.4095124 kg. It is interesting that the pounds in other countries were by no means equal to the Russian and each other.
40 pounds was a pood, a measure of weight used for very large volumes of metal. The largest Russian coin at that time weighed 1/10 of a pood, that is, more than one and a half kilograms.
Sometimes calculations were made in such measures as chervonets. It was equal to one spool, and the amount of pure gold in it was 78.24. Much more commonly used units were called spool, share and lot.
The spool probably got its name from the metal. In Ancient Rus', gold coins bore a name that could also sound like “zlatnik”. There were 96 shares in one spool, and 96 spools made up 1 pound. This manner of calculation is inspired by the previously widely used six system.
The term "slotnik" then began to be used to define the purity of the alloy. If the product contained, for example, 75 shares of pure gold and 21 shares of another metal, this corresponded to 75 samples.
The minimum unit was a fraction of 1/96 zlotnik or 44.435 milligrams. The lot was used from the 50s of the 18th century to the 20th century and amounted to 3 zlotniks.
Brand
Let us also consider foreign units of measurement of mass, which were embodied in coin form. As a monetary unit, most numismatists associate the stamp exclusively with Germany. But as a measure of weight it was used throughout Europe. It is believed that as a monetary unit, the mark initially became widespread in England, although it came there from Denmark, so at first it was equal to one hundred pence. But then it became part of the pound sterling, making up two thirds of it and equaling 13 shillings and 4 pence, which ultimately amounted to 160 pence.
Scotland even managed to mint its own stamps, which by the end of the Middle Ages became the main monetary unit of this country. True, the Scots called the brand “merk”. At first it was exchanged for the same 13 shillings and 4 pence (but not English, but Scottish), but then the price rose to 14 shillings. The market value of the Scottish mark was approximately equal to the English shilling. Silver of 500 standard was used for minting.
It is believed that the standard weight of the stamp is 249 grams or 8 troy ounces. However, various European lands introduced their own brands, which had deviations up or down.
- Cologne mark: 233.855 grams;
- Lübeck stamp: 234 grams;
- French stamp: 244.752 grams;
- Prague mark: 253.14 grams;
- Scandinavian brand: 253.14 grams;
- Venice stamp: 238.5 grams;
- Triente mark: 254.7 grams;
- Riga stamp: 207.82 grams.
Before the advent of the mark, the Holy Roman Empire of the German nation used the weight pound (408.24 grams), but for convenience they needed a lighter unit, which became half the weight pound - the mark. In the places where the Western Slavs lived, the concepts of “mark” and “hryvnia” were often synonymous due to their similar weight. Since 1319, the seaside city of Stralsund, which was part of the Hanseatic League (Hansestadt Stralsund), began minting its stamps (Sundische Mark) from silver. True, they were later supplanted by the more valuable Lubeck mark. The Cologne mark became the standard in an attempt to unify the monetary system of the Holy Roman Empire of the German nation at the beginning of the 16th century.
The mark was adopted as the official currency of the German Empire in 1871. Before this, the mark was used as a unit of account in the northern German states (for example, in Hamburg). Such a coin was also minted and exchanged for 16 shillings. The first all-German stamps appeared in 1873. After unification, the German states had the right to mint silver coins of 2, 3 and 5 marks, as well as gold coins of 10 and 20 marks. Before the First World War, the mark was freely exchanged for 0.358425 grams of gold.